Vehicle-spring



(No Model.)

A. O. WILBUR.

VEHICLE SPRING.

Patented Dec. 5, 1882.

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UNITED l STATES I JPATENT OFFICE.

ALPHEUS O. W ILBUR, OF DAVIS, MICHIGAN.

V VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,582, dated'December5, 1882.

Application filed August 2, 1882. (No model.)

To all 'wliom, tt may concern Be it known that I, ALPHEUS O. WILBUR, ofDavis, in the county of Macomb and State of Michigan, have invented newand useful Improvements in Vehicle Springs; and I'do class which areprovided with bolsters upon which the body or box rests; and theinvention consists in the peculiar construction and combination ofparts, as more fully hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved spring. Figure 2 is anelevation from the opposite side.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Arepresents two coil-springs of equal size inclosed between the topplate,B, and the bottom plate, G, the whole being secured together bymeans of the bolts D, the parts being so arranged with relation to thebolts that when the springs are compressed by pressure upon the topplate the lower ends of the bolts will project through the bottom plate.The bottom plate is provided with the cars a, designed to embrace thewagonstake, and the top plate is provided with the lugs d, coincident invertical position to the lugs a, and it performs the double office ofemears on are designed to be secured to the stake by a bolt passingthrough said ears and the stake through the hole b. In practice four ofthese springs are requiredone at each end of the front and rear bolstersand by their use'a very cheap and effective spring is obtained.

1 am aware of Patent No. 256,564, of 1882, in which duplex springsare'housed in a casting which rests upon 'the bolster, and suchconstruction is not sought to be covered in this application.

What I claim as my invention isv 1. The bottom plate, which forms thebed for the springs, having flanges to embrace the bolster'andperforated ears to embrace the wagon-stake, and be secured thereto,combined with the top plate having flanges to embrace the said stakenear its upper extremity, the

springs, and bolts, as set forth.

2. In combination with a bolster, its stake, and the body of a wagon,the bed-plate O, having lugs c and ears a, perforated at b, the topplate, B, having ears 0?, the bolts D, and the springs A, as and for thepurposes set forth.

ALPHEUS 0. WILBUB.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, T. SHERMAN.

